by the El Reportero’s news services
After an intensive search the volume of One Hundred Years of Solitude stolen during the Book Fair of Bogota, returned to the hands of its owner, who announced that he will donate it to the National Library of Colombia, today confirmed the press.
The text dedicated and signed by its author, Gabriel García Márquez, belongs to the private collection of Alvaro Castillo.
This bookseller treasures recognized the first editions of the works of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
According to reports from investigators in the case, the book was recovered in the La Perseverancia, located in downtown Bogota, in a sector where functions a market of pieces of great literary and cultural value, regardless of the law.
The book published in 1967 was to be sold on the black market worth 120 million pesos (about $ 60,000), said the police chief Rodolfo Palomino after providing details of the operation on the trail of this literary gem.
According to Castillo, there is a treasure that belongs to the country so you should be in the National Library.
This text disappeared the week before the Corferias exhibition complex, specifically the Macondo Pavilion, dedicated to revere the narrator and journalist who died last year in Mexico, victim of cancer.
The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered the best example of its kind written in Castilian after Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
Gabo left for posterity other prominent creations, among which Love in the Time of Cholera, which he defined as the most human of his writings, Of Love and Other Demons, Chronicle of a Death announced and a series of stories.
Mexican Cuarón to chair jury at Venice International Film Festival
Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón will chair the jury that will deliver the Golden Lion at the next Venice International Film Festival, according to organizers of the famous film festival.
Cuarón, who won a screenplay award in Venice with his classic Y Tu Mama También and then opened the event with Gravity will rule along with eight more members what is the best movie of the event.
The 72 edition of the contest will run from September 2nd to 12th, coinciding with the end of the busy Arts Biennial of the City of Canals.
The decision to entrust the presidency of the jury to Cuarón was taken by the board of the ‘Biennale’, whose cinema chapter is directed by Alberto Barbera.
